OpenSolaris Flying with the FAA
How the FAA Is Bringing Its Air Traffic Systems into the 21st Century:
"Sun's open-source OpenSolaris/ZFS/SunFire server/Thumper storage
infrastructure -- which features built-in, state-of-the-art
virtualization capability -- was a key building block on which the FAA
IT evaluation group settled. Some of the new software is already being
used in the air traffic system; ZFS (Sun's open-source Zettabyte File
System) is being used in the FAA's air traffic data center. 'The FAA
uses a large quantity of Sun Solaris servers in a variety of
configurations to support some of our noncritical business
applications,' Andy Isaksen, manager of the Communications
Infrastructure Engineering Team for NADIN and architect of the original
mainframe system, said. 'ZFS is being used on at least one service
within the Air Traffic Organization Enterprise Data Center.'" -- eWeek,
September 24, 2008
Cool. The article also points out that Sun is teaming up with Cisco on this new system. Seems like a pretty important deployment for OpenSolaris that will potentially help support all air travelers in the United States.
Cool. The article also points out that Sun is teaming up with Cisco on this new system. Seems like a pretty important deployment for OpenSolaris that will potentially help support all air travelers in the United States.
